Casino Royale (1967)

Quantum of Solace (2008)

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Epic Movie

Really?

I think that referring to any Sinclair product as hifi would require significant redefinition of that word!

Casino great, Solace awful, Skyfall ???

I really enjoyed Craig as the new Bond in Casino Royale - to me it was Bond Reborn, in much the way Christian Bales first Batman was an excellent restart of that franchise. But was I the only one that struggled to work out what the heck was going on in Solace?

I saw it at the Odeon, Leicester Square, the day after the Premier and have to say the sound was awful. I couldn't decide whether the difficulty of hearing what was being said was the problem to grasping the plot, or whether it was just all pretty random in the first place.

Here's hoping the next one gets back to the promise seen in the first Craig Bond.

Skyfall or Sky-FAIL ?

Is it not more likely...

Is it not more likely that the call to Cook was getting him to go visit Jobs because he knew the end was near - and that either Jobs or Cook used the "future product" line in order to cover that fact?

Just my own thought...

Paying for postage & packing is "annoying"?????

"Around 40 per cent of shoppers found paying a high price, *** or indeed any price ***, for postage and packing annoying,..."

I run an e-commerce site. So far I haven't found any organisation that is willing, FOR NO FEE, to come and collect the items from my premises each evening and then deliver them to any location within the UK the next morning.

Rather than price everything so that the charge I have to pay is included (hidden?) within it, I charge a price PER DELIVERY - reflecting my actual cost. So if someone purchases multiple items they aren't paying multiple (hidden) delivery costs.

I consider this approach gives the best possible value to my customers and would have hoped they appreciate it...

(Incidentally, once the order gets above a certain value then I take a margin loss and do not charge for the delivery.)

Now I'm being told 40% of people find any charge "annoying".

** SO ** - Perhaps any of these 40% can advise me where any of these magical free packing and delivery service can be found so I can start using them? Perhaps Santa's elves are available for most of the year (excluding December of course)...

You do the maths

"One in 10 Brits leaves web passwords in their will"

"...as a survey suggests that 11 per cent of Brits have..."

So that'll be 1 in 9 then!

Euch

I've seen a few of these around and still recoil in horror at its total utter and complete ugliness each and every time.

The Nissan Juke is a work or art in comparison and at least has some sort of cuteness about it.

Not quite right!

"All of this will be accompanied by suitable promotions explaining how to pronounce the name of the company (HU-AH-WAY) – a problem that HTC never had to face."

Not quite right - perhaps HTC could try to educate the ignoramuses who believe it is "Haitch Tea Cee" as opposed to the correct and altogether more pleasant "Aitch Tea Cee".

(Whilst I'm on this topic, perhaps the BBC could also train some of their announcers that it is "Bee Bee Cee One Aitch Dee" and not the quite frequently used "Bee Bee Cee One Haitch Dee".)

That's all...

Exactly how disorganised are you?

"makes an ideal backup phone for those inevitable moments when your regular handset dies"...."it has come to my rescue numerous times over the last week".

My own phone gets regular use every day, yet I could not even begin to remember the last time, if ever, it ran out of battery on me. However, you seem to manage it with yours numerous times per week?

Don't you ever think of charging it?

PS: Despite your own apparent ineptitude I am still sorely temped by this "sick" device!

All I can say is...

...that I hope the plethora of spelling / grammar / punctuation errors in the Valentine's Messages is not indicative of the quality of everything else.

Some of you seem to have missed this...

"The gang members got a flat fee of up to £30,000 for their work."

So, no, they haven't got equal portions of a very large sum - it would appear just one of them has got the thick end of the dosh all to himself.

And I don't think "up to £30,000" is much compensation for any number of years in the slammer, no matter how low security.

Mind you, they'll probably come out better educated in crime and detection avoidance, and thus able to avoid the same mistakes again.

Stelios

Am I alone in thinking this guy looks like Stelios?

What a balls-up...

...well, nearly!

What about Nascom?

I have seen no comments here about the Nascom. Surely that was represented there?

The Nascom was a British self-build 2MHz Z80 based kit on a 12" x 8" board with 1K ROM and 1K RAM as standard and a "full" keyboard. Output was normally via a domestic TV (it had a modulator on-board) and loading/saving via a domestic cassette recorder.

It was launched in 1977 at £199 (plus VAT). A lot of kit for the price at the time! (Mind you, that didn't include a power supply which you had to buy (and build) separately.

They're obviously not very confident it will work...

...otherwise they'd be parking it between their own cars, which can be seen briefly in the corner of the shot.

Hedley Phillips - find some new friends!

"And if you don't have an HD tuner then watching SD on a big LCD TV is awful, the picture quality is rubbish, blurred and washed out (I have spent a lot of time at friends houses who have new LCD's and the picture on our CRT is much clearer)."

All I can say is that your friends must have made very poor choices of TV sets or not set them up right.

We have a 42" Pioneer - OK, I admit it's plasma, not LCD. But then many people either lump ALL flat-screens under just the "LCD" label or the "plasma" label. Many simply don't know they are the different types!

Anyway, 95% of our source material is through a Humax 9200 - the very piece of equipment you say you have - so all SD source.

The picture is stunning! Even my wife, who is as great a technophobe as you can find, has said that she finds natural world type programs on this combination truly amazing. Her words "this is when your new TV really comes into its own".

Our pictures are not blurred; they are not washed out - they are awesome!

I suggest you tell your friends to buy decent sets - or perhaps they just need to spend some time setting up the ones they have!

And yes, I agree the Humax 9200 is a superb piece of kit - I trust you have made sure it has been updated with the various software updates that have come along from time to time. The updates have made this the only piece of consumer equipment I have ever owned that gets BETTER over time with great new features being added as time goes by.

Get the right set, make sure it's set up right, and you can really enjoy SD material.

What about Nildram? Have they been told?

"In the end, it went quietly. As of yesterday, Tiscali is no more in the UK.

"Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk boss Charles Dunstone wielded the axe on his corporate blog.

"He said: "From today the Tiscali brand is no more and we're committed to giving all of our customers absolute clarity about who we are, the services we provide and the prices we charge."

And yet 2 minutes ago on the Nildram website:

Nildram is a trading name of Pipex Internet Limited, a Tiscali UK Company

20 Broadwick Street, London W1F 8HT

Registered in England, registered number 5306519

So, if "Tiscali ... is no more" perhaps Nildram need telling?

And the IT angle is?

Well?

@Yorkshirepudding

At least try and spell Motorola correctly - please.

There's a big clue in the article's title!

Both in our house.

My 12 year old son has a PS2 and a PS3 (80GB) and uses both.

He has even bought some more (admittedly used) PS2 games recently.

Why? Well, he claims he totally finishes many PS3 games within a couple of days, even 1 day for one!

And as well as offering longer play time the PS2 games are a lot cheaper - particularly used!

So, had we been able to buy a new PS3 with backwards compatibility for PS2 games we would willingly have done so.

PS3

As per title - with added benefit of being able to play games on it too should you so wish, many of which are available as free demo versions through the PS3 on-line store.

Standalone on its own

"...let it operate as a standalone unit all on its own."

And what else may "standalone mean", other than "on its own"?

Doesn't add up!

£141,028.52 in ill-gotten gains, yet they can only find 34 victims to return £927.52 to?

If they have the eBay records they should be able to track down ALL of the defrauded eBayers.

Something somehwhere just doesn't add up ..... or maybe it does:

"Under the rules half of the rest of the money is split between the Crown Prosecution Service, the Magistrates' Court Service and the police"

So the less we return the more we get to keep!

@antediluvian by AC

You make it sound great.

But just one question remains before I move there.

Please can you confirm whether or not all of the French have moved out?

Not quite correct ...

"As phone models age it's normal for the subsidy on them to increase"

No - As phone models age it's normal for the ex-factory HANDSET PRICE to DECREASE.

Same effect to the consumer of course.

What about dust?

Looks like a dust magnet to me - although that won't be a problem if you're able to hose it down once a week.

@Connor Garvey

If I knew wtf a 411 call was this may have made some sense to me!

(This is www.register.co.uk BTW!)

So they can't be stopped whatever you do!

"If you opt out of AdChoice, you'll still see ads, they just won't be tailored to your interests."

Great! (NOT!)

Nokia have already had solar panels!

Oh yeah of little faith.... "You'll be waiting a while" .... Not true at all. It happened 10 years ago!

The original Nokia 1610/1611/1630 range (circa 1998/1999?) had an optional battery which had solar panels on it.

Admittedly this was an early GSM phone and thus quite large by today's standards, but a benefit of that was the rear surface area of the battery (which just slid straight on/off the back of the phone and therefore was itself the rear panel of the phone) was a fair size.

Aussies are lucky!

"Paypal charges a fee of between 1.1 and 2.4 per cent on top of the auction price."..... In the UK for most sellers it is 3.4% plus 20p.

And there are already moves in the UK to make certain auction categories PayPal only.

And there was I......

.... always thinking it was a POLO-neck.

Something to do with keeping warm in the Arctic / Antarctic?